Electrodes in brain to ‘switch off’ pain
Breakthrough implant surgery may help patients to control agony caused by major injury. Jo Revill reports.
Pioneer DNA bank to examine lifestyles
Thousands of people are to be recruited for Britain's first DNA databank to help scientists understand how genes work with lifestyle factors to create disease, The Observer can reveal.
End of infertility within a decade, say doctors
The end of infertility is within sight, scientists said
yesterday, anticipating the possibility within a decade
of solving the biggest remaining problem by growing
new eggs and sperm from stem cells for people who
can no longer produce them.
Invisible support
Universities are beginning to cope better with mental-health problems among students. Mark Gould reports.
Medical experts
Did you know that Britain has tried foundation hospitals before? Stephen Cook meets historians whose research could and should help us to learn health lessons from the past.